Diane Ravitch: Bloomberg and Klein refuse to accept responsibility for inflated claims
I should have known better; when you're dealing with New Yorkers there's no such thing as a ?final word.?
I should have known better; when you're dealing with New Yorkers there's no such thing as a ?final word.?
Two weeks ago we ran an editorial by Sol Stern in the Education Gadfly in which he argued that ?For Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, test inflation was the gift from Albany that kept on giving, and they found ways to bui
IKEA has taken over my living room, and now Swedes are setting their sights on charter schools.
?The question is, are we intentionally setting up charter schools to fail.'' ? Larry Maloney, owner of Aspire Educational Consulting Company and author of a recent Ball State charter school study
This week Fordham hosted two discussions revolving around our latest book, Ohio's Education Reform Challenges: Lessons from the Frontlines, wh
There's more than Russlynn Ali's pledge to root out seven-year-old misogynists that's dubious about the federal anti-bullying conference and it is the federal anti-bullying conference.
The federal government's first anti-bullying summit concluded yesterday. Modern-day bullying, it seems, is no longer the semi-amusing stuff of high-school-themed movies and sitcoms; swirlies and wedgies have given way to what Secretary of Education Arne Duncan described in his opening remarks as ?racial, sexual, or disability harassment prohibited by the civil rights laws.?